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Awards & Recognitions

Team Rhea, comprising Akshat Kumar (B.Tech. CSB, 2027), secured 1st place at the Nucleate Longevity Bio-Hackathon 2026 at IISc Bengaluru for developing a diagnostic platform for ovarian ageing and endometriosis monitoring.
Team IIITDards won 1st place in the Mastercard Innovation Challenge at GFF 2026 for their project on“Red Teaming AI for GenAI-Era Payment Fraud”.

Monalisa Pal, a 1st-year M.Tech. CSE student at IIIT-Delhi, is the recipient of the Vehant Fellowship 2026.

IIIT-Delhi Ph.D. scholars- Aarya Patel (CSE), Avi Gupta (CSE), Nazreen Shah (ECE), Abdullah Mazhar (CSE) and Karan Goyal (CSE)- were recognised among India’s Top 100 AI/ML Research Scholars by Amazon.

Sameeksha Jain (B.Tech. CSE, 2028) secured 3rd place nationally and the Gold Honour (Top 1% globally) at the International Computer Science Competition 2026.

IIIT-Delhi B.Tech. CSAM (Class of 2027) students Saksham Bansal, Ronit Ghosh and Ujjwal Kumar secured third place at the Adobe India Hackathon 2026.

Yellapragada Santoshi Ramya (B.Tech. CSE, 2019) and Mukul Chhabra (B.Tech. ECE, 2020) received the IIIT-Delhi Young Alumni Award 2026.

Prof. Debarka Sengupta received the INSA Associate Fellowship 2026 for his contributions to AI-driven precision cancer care.

Research

A project led by Dr. Jaspreet Kaur Dhanjal (PI) and Dr. Debarka Sengupta (Co-PI) received funding under the ANRF MAHA MedTech Mission for developing an affordable indigenous platform for non-invasive prenatal screening.

IIIT-Delhi was granted Indian Patent No. 600766 for System and Method for Generating Molecules to Search for a Drug in a Drug-Database, invented by Dr. Arjun Ray, Riddhi Sharma and Bhumika Choudhary.

Publications

Research by Prof. Ganesh Bagler and his team on Computational Gastronomy was featured in The Indian Express, highlighting the role of data and AI in understanding food, nutrition and sustainability.

Dr. Anuj Grover, authored an article titled “Interdisciplinary Learning Will Shape the Future of Engineering”, published in The Hans India.

IIIT-Delhi researchers Depanshu Sani, Sourabh Saini, Harsh Kumar Agarwal, Saket Anand and Gaurav Arora developed the SICKLE satellite imagery dataset for agricultural monitoring, featured by PTI and The Tribune.

Dr. Sanat K. Biswas shared insights with DW News on developing skilled talent and advancing India's space technology ecosystem.

A research paper by Arnesh Batra (B.Tech. CSAI, Class of 2027) was accepted for the NeurIPS 2026 Main Track (Poster), one of the leading international conferences in AI and machine learning.

Around 67 research papers have been published by IIIT-Delhi researchers in various journals that have been indexed in scopus. Details of the publications are available here - https://iiitd.ac.in/research/publications

Academic Events

The SSH Department organised two research talks by Prof. Bhaskar Dutta (Ashoka University) on “Peer Selection with Friends and Enemies” and Prof. Saptarshi Mukherjee (IIT Delhi) on “Revealed Rationality From Choice Processes.”

The CSAM and SSH Departments, IIITD, in collaboration with the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, organised a workshop on Applied Economic Theory & Mathematics.

An Alumni Talk by Dr. Nidhi Goyal (Ph.D.2024), on “HumAIze: More than Intelligence, It’s Human Connection” was organized by the Office of Communication and Alumni Affairs

Other Key Events

Outreach

IIIT-Delhi, in collaboration with the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA), organised a two-day workshop on “Rural Connectivity and Intelligent Village”

IIIT-Delhi organised a Spatial Computing Boot Camp under the MeitY-sponsored skilling initiative.

Dr. Rinku Shah hosted an ANRF research paper reading session featuring Agentix: An Efficient Serving Engine for LLM Agents as General Programs, presented by Ph.D. scholar Mohammad Ali.

IIIT-Delhi, in collaboration with the EU Delegation to India and the EU-India Student Ambassadors Network, hosted EU Day on ICT.

The ECE Department, Wirocomm Research Group and CoE LiFi at IIITD, in collaboration with IEEE chapters, organised a two-day workshop on space-air-ground integrated networks.

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